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Legal teams today must understand the ramifications of
cybersecurity events, ensure compliance across a complex global
regulatory landscape and manage the strain of ediscovery expenses,
not to mention that they must also work with IT on initiatives that
were once foreign to lawyers. There's no doubt—counsel's role is
more multidimensional than it has ever been before. While this can
overwhelm, it also creates the potential for counsel to influence
change and drive policy and technology decisions.
One relevant example that we're seeing is counsel's recognition
of the opportunity associated with information governance
(IG) initiatives and migration to cloud services like Office 365.
While projects like these have long been viewed as outside legal's
wheelhouse, an increasing number of lawyers are interested in
geing them off the ground due to their potential to solve many
needs and challenges of lawyers. The legal team has much to gain
from features within Office 365; however, it faces equal or greater
risk if the process is not conducted in the context of strong legal and
regulatory guidelines.
The Risk Landscape
Before these benefits can be realized, legal and IT must collaborate
to address the risks. The movement of critical corporate data to
the cloud raises security and data protection concerns, and we are
seeing advanced email threats on the rise for corporations of all
sizes. Fulfillment of legal hold obligations can be affected during
a migration, and without a reliable map of the data, sensitive
information that should be securely retained or defensibly deleted
can be lost in the shuffle. For these reasons, Office 365 migration
by T. Sean Kelly of FTI Technology
A New Hope: How to Leverage
Office 365 to Mitigate GDPR Risk
A New Hope: How to Leverage Office 365 to Mitigate GDPR Risk
